Foreign sayings in Xi's quotes
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Updated: 2018-01-17 06:28
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In addition, the president also quotes great lines from foreign classics. Lines by Dickens, Shakespeare and Hugo are frequently quoted in Xi's speeches.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” These are the words used by the English writer Charles Dickens to describe the world after the Industrial Revolution. Today, we also live in a world of contradictions.
-Keynote speech at the opening ceremony of 2017 World Economic Forum,
Jan 17, 2017
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